Antikke Våpen Parker Snow Miller 58RF M1864 by Meriden & Co

Heisann!

Objektet er som nytt å regne, denne kan ikke være brukt mye, løpsmessig som ny, aldeles speilblank i pipa, med sylskarpe bommer.

Utvendig nydelig.

Unik mulighet.

Produsert senest 1864, så langt eldre enn hva som kreves for eventuell lisens, kan fritt selges og eies.

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In January of 1862, James Mulholland, superintendent of the Reading Railroad, received a federal letter order for 58,000 .58 caliber Model 1861 Springfield rifled muskets. In February the order was reduced to 25,000. In June of 1862, he signed a contract with Parkers’ Snow & Co. to produce the guns. William H. Miller, with twenty years of gun manufacturing experience, was hired to superintend gun production, and his younger brother, George W., with ten years gun manufacturing experience, was hired to produce the locks. Converting the Cherry Street machine making and foundry operation into a gun works took time, and the first 5,502 rifles with “Parker Snow & Co.” and “1863” stamped on the locks were not completed until October 31, 1863.

The balance of that contract was not made by Parker and may have been assigned to Savage Revolving Firearms Co. An additional contract for 15,000 rifled muskets was signed with Parkers’ Snow & Co. on September 28, 1863. All 15,000 guns were completed and are marked identical to the first Parkers’ Snow & Co. rifled muskets, except that “1864” is stamped on the locks of these guns.

December 1864, Charles Parker again renamed the Cherry Street operation. The new name was “Meriden Manufacturing Co.” and, on January 9, 1865, the operation was restructured as a joint stock company with all non-Parker interest being conveyed to Charles, John, and Edmund Parker. Charles retained controlling ownership interest. It was under this name, that Parker’s breech-loading conversion system for rifled muskets (the William H. and George W. Miller patented system), the Triplett & Scott repeating rifles and carbines, and the first Parker shotguns were made in 1865.

Sendes først i midten av Desember, er på jobbreise.

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